Since our Brussels office was set up in 1999, we have worked to make sure that EU policies include a strong focus on the fight against extreme poverty, inequalities and global injustice.

Drawing on ActionAid’s experience working with communities in Africa, Asia and the Americas, our EU office is making the voices of people living in poverty heard by policymakers in Brussels. We push for changes in EU policies that shape their life.

Women around the world are more likely to live in poverty - just because they are women. They have less access to land, education, income and decision-making – all of which keeps them poor. We put women and women’s rights at the centre of all our work.

20 May 2015This morning, on my way to work, I read the new EU communication on Better Regulation, a set of proposals to change decision-making processes at EU level in order to deliver better results...

What is it?The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition was launched in 2012 by the G8 (now the G7, with Russia’s departure), with the aim of “rais[ing] 50 million people out of poverty in Africa...